Sandra Caddy, Castlemaine
Peter Ryan (‘Stop adding hate’, Opinions, March 19) writes, Maybe people will realise that every time they express negative or hateful thoughts about asylum seekers and refugees, whether Muslim or not, they are adding to the mood of hatred.
Peter do you realise that on the day of the Christchurch shooting 13 civilians were killed in Mozambique (Agence France-Presse); suicide bombers disguised in women’s clothing killed six people fleeing the Islamic State holdout in Syria (South China Morning Post); Boko Haram attacked a Christian Village killed one person, abducted two sisters and destroyed the village church and six houses (Persecution.org) as an example of daily atrocities.
Have you considered it is the unrelenting terror attacks perpetrated around the world each and every day that create ‘negative or hateful thinking’ not the other way around?
I agree there is a tiny glimmer of hope but that hope comes from believing one day people will accept the truth rather than the romantic rhetoric and take appropriate political action.
